1. Chapter 9 The Terrestrial Planets

3. Mercury: The Messenger

4. Mercury’s temperature range is the most extreme in the solar system 59 day rotation and lack of an appreciable atmosphere means temperatures vary enormously from one side of the planet to the other. Temperatures range from -280°F to 660°F

5. Venus: The Fatal Beauty

6. clouds on Venus consists of 96% carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid!

7. The Temperature of Venus The runaway greenhouse effect heats Venus’s surface to 900 o F!

8. Venus’s Surface: Venera 1981

9. Venus’s Surface: Radar Mapping Magellan 1990

10. Mars: The Warrior

11. Mars’ two moons, Phobos and Deimos, look more like potatoes than spheres

12. Valles Marineris is many times larger than the Grand Canyon Enormous volcanoes

14. The Largest Volcano in The Solar System: Olympus Mons

15. Water on Mars?

16. Ohio River valley on Earth River channels on Mars

17. Spirit and Opportunity 2004

18. Curiosity lands on Mars, August 5 th 2012

19. Life on Mars? Martian meteorite blasted from Mars 15 million years ago and landed in Antarctica 13,000 years ago Fossil?

20. Human Exploration of Mars?

21. Privatization of Space